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A Word from Lucy

A hearty hello and welcome to you, dear reader. My friend, Joan, and I have been commiserating and conspiring for some time now. Why? do you ask? The answer is deceptively simple: to become all that God intends for us to be by finding out what we are worth. How? Well... that is the purpose of this blog.

I am a wife to my beloved Jeff. Together we have four amazing, wonderful children. We are a Catholic Christian family, home educating these precious children and running a business. Did you catch all that? Wife, mom, teacher, bookkeeper, manager of my home - add to those shoes my roles as friend, daughter, neighbor. While I am honored to be all these things for all the people in my life, it is all too easy to forget how to be Lucy and remember myself in my daily living. Not long ago, it occurred to me that I cannot love my Lord with my whole heart, mind and soul, nor can I love my neighbor as myself if I do not behave as though I love myself.

This promises to be an exciting, challenging new year. I invite you to grow and learn along with us as we use these next 365 days to find our worth. Do you have an idea or a comment? Share it! Do you have some hard-won knowledge of your worth? Share it!

May peace be yours.Lucy

A Word from Joan

Welcome to the new adventure for me and my friend Lucy!I am excited to share with you this year as God teaches me all about how to treat myself better, and to be a better example to those around me of what it means to be a "daughter of the King of Kings!"

I am a Christian, and I am a mother of 4 amazing blessings and believing for the 5th installment of Curtis Kids...wife to the amazing Todd who is a wonderful husband that is excited to go thru this journey with me this year. Todd quote "Cool! I look forward to seeing my wife treat herself better!"

I look forward to being enlightened and taught by you as well, so please feel free to comment... I will not debate, but I am willing to discuss! :)

Pearls of Worth

Matthew 13:43-45Luke 1:45 NIVRomans 9:31-33 NIV

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Day 6: Perserverance

Today has been the usual kind of busy. I had a writing project due for work, schooling to do with the kids, a little housekeeping and cleanup from Christmas, and so on. For some reason I was just so tired and now, at the end of the day, I'm feeling more run down than usual and suspect I may have a cold. I'll be brief:

It's quite alright that I did not get everything done today that I had hoped to do (even playing the piano didn't happen). I can be satisfied with what I did manage to do because I just kept chipping away. A little effort here, a little attention there. It's ok to just be human. I'm not SuperWoman and certainly do not aspire to be one (that kind of super human effort is unsustainable for a mere mortal like me). However, I remembered today that admitting my imperfect humanity is exactly what I need to do. I can proudly say I stuck it out today and managed to accomplish quite a bit. I can also see that even with scaled back effort, chipping away at my tasks today paid off. I am worth being gentle to myself, especially when feeling under the weather. Instead of feeling frazzled and upset all day, I gave myself permission to just do a little bit and see how I felt as I went along.

I bid you all good night. I'm taking Joan's advice and turning in early this evening. A nice bath (because I'm worth a little pampering), a chapter of my book, and then lights out.

Question: Do you give yourself permission to be satisfied with small accomplishments? Do you recognize when those small feats are accomplished under more trying circumstances than usual?